Myrmicaria
# Myrmicaria

Myrmicaria is an ant genus within the subfamily Myrmicinae.

## Description

Myrmicaria can be discerned from related ant genera by a postpetiole with a complete tergosternal fusion, a postpetiole-gaster articulation shifted ventrally on the gaster, and an antenna with seven segments.

## Biochemistry

Myrmicarin 430A, a heptacyclic alkaloid, was isolated from the poison glands of African Myrmicaria. The structure of its carbon skeleton was previously unknown.

## Species

* Myrmicaria anomala Arnold, 1960
* Myrmicaria arachnoides (Smith, 1857)
* Myrmicaria arnoldi Santschi, 1925
* Myrmicaria basutorum Arnold, 1960
* Myrmicaria baumi Forel, 1901
* Myrmicaria birmana Forel, 1902
* Myrmicaria brunnea Saunders, 1842
* Myrmicaria carinata (Smith, 1857)
* Myrmicaria castanea Crawley, 1924
* Myrmicaria distincta Santschi, 1925
* Myrmicaria exigua Andre, 1890
* Myrmicaria faurei Arnold, 1947
* Myrmicaria fodica (Jerdon, 1851)
* Myrmicaria foreli Santschi, 1925
* Myrmicaria fumata Santschi, 1916
* Myrmicaria fusca Stitz, 1911
* Myrmicaria irregularis Santschi, 1925
* Myrmicaria laevior Forel, 1910
* Myrmicaria lutea Emery, 1900
* Myrmicaria melanogaster Emery, 1900
* Myrmicaria natalensis (Smith, 1858)
* Myrmicaria nigra (Mayr, 1862)
* Myrmicaria opaciventris Emery, 1893
* Myrmicaria reichenspergeri Santschi, 1925
* Myrmicaria rhodesiae Arnold, 1958
* Myrmicaria rugosa (Smith, 1860)
* Myrmicaria rustica Santschi, 1925
* Myrmicaria salambo Wheeler, 1922
* Myrmicaria striata Stitz, 1911
* Myrmicaria striatula Santschi, 1925
* Myrmicaria tigreensis (Guerin-Meneville, 1849)
* Myrmicaria vidua Smith, 1858
